‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects

The strange objects, one of them like a spinning top
moving against the wind, appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March
2015, high in the skies over the East Coast. Navy pilots reported to their
superiors that the objects had no visible engine or infrared exhaust plumes,
but that they could reach 30,000 feet and hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” said Lt. Ryan
Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who has been with the Navy for 10 years,
and who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress. “Keeping an
aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we
observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

In late 2014, a Super Hornet pilot had a near collision
with one of the objects, and an official mishap report was filed. Some of the
incidents were videotaped, including one taken by a plane’s camera in early
2015 that shows an object zooming over the ocean waves as pilots question what
they are watching.

How to Be a Grave Digger

In today’s modern world, bodies are often disposed of in a myriad of ways. For centuries, however, a popular method of choice was to dig a grave, and it served as an important part of how we care for the dead. But what is it like to actually get down into the dirt and carve out a space for a body’s final resting place? Director of Video, Chris Naka, picked up a shovel and joined Ed Bixby, owner and operator of Steelmantown Cemetery in Woodbine, New Jersey, to see what it would be like to actually partake in this practice.

Most Haunted Town in the American South

Monticello has a reputation for being the most haunted small town in the American South. It is home to Indian Mounds and many historic buildings, including the Perkins Opera House (now the Monticello Opera House) and the Monticello Old Jail Museum.

Many of these places have a history that ‘haunts’ the present. Many a superstitious tourist, history buff, or supernatural hobbyist have enjoyed the history and haunts of Monticello.

Found: Mysterious Ritual Burials From the Iron Age

While laying down some water pipes, workers at the U.K. utility company Thames Water had a workday interrupted in a rather macabre fashion when they unearthed what turned out to be the remains of 26 people who had been ritualistically buried in pits in Oxfordshire. One set of remains belonged to a woman who was interred with her feet cut off and placed by her side, and her arms bound behind her head. The bones are believed to be nearly 3,000 years old.

'Ghost Adventures' investigation followed by unearthing of human body parts in jars

A collection of jars containing human body parts and removed tumors was discovered on the property of the Crescent Hotel in early April, just after an investigation by the Ghost Adventures team on the property. The popular Travel Channel paranormal show referenced the jars, which were undiscovered at the time, in their investigation.

The jars were the property of Norman Baker, a “doctor” who purchased the property in 1937 and turned it into a health resort, claiming he had the cure for cancer. He treated a number of patients, but none were cured of the disease.

How Victorian Mediums Gave Shy Ghosts a Megaphone

Before the spirit trumpet, conversations with ghosts were restricted to more primitive, nonverbal forms of communication, according to Collectors Weekly. Spirits were known to rap on the floor or spell out words in a painfully slow manner, and mediums would speak the entire alphabet out loud until the ghosts stopped them at a certain letter. The advent of the spirit trumpet broke down these linguistic barriers by allowing the dead to speak directly with the living, kind of like a mobile phone for beyond the grave.